Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Absolute Phrase
Understanding how phrases are built and function will be an invaluable tool for students. This tutorial features many examples to help the student in grasping grammar concepts.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Grammar/writing Ii: Instruction: Sentence Construction
This lesson from a grammar and writing unit focuses on sentence construction including writing clear, concise sentences useing the correct subject-verb agreement. It features links to The Writer's Handbook: Clear, Concise, Sentences,...
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame: Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid
A resource for information on both construction and interpretation of Latin grammar, as well as a dictionary.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Double Negatives: 3 Rules You Must Know
This page explains the 3 rules for double negatives: each subject-predicate construction should only have one negative form, a double negative is a non-standard sentence construction that uses two negative forms, and standard English is...
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Untangle Grammatical Structures
This page explains the need to revise sentences with unclear or mixed constructions and provides examples.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Subject
Part of larger website devoted to sentence structure, grammar, and writing skills, this tutorial teaches the subject of a sentence--the person, place, thing, or idea that is doing or being something.
University of Texas at Austin
Tex's French Grammar: Bon/meilleur vs. Bien/mieux
This site from Tex's French Grammar provides a concise and clear presentation of bon/bien, meillure/mieux, aussi bon/aussi bien etc. Contains usage examples and interactive practice exercises (written and audio).
University of Texas at Austin
Tex's French Grammar: Subject Verb Inversion
This site from Tex's French Grammar provides a clear and concise description of forming a question through subject/verb inversion. Includes negation,, using 'est-ce' and 'y a-t-il', compound tenses etc. Provides both audio and written...
University of Texas at Austin
Tex's French Grammar: Regular Subjunctive
This page has a concise explanation of the subjunctive mood, listing some verbs that undergo stem changes. Brief explanation of when to use focuses primarily on "il faut que" constructions. Provides usage examples, dialogues and...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Main Clause
Grammar tutorial for understanding the main clause (independent clause) and distinguishing the subordinate (dependent) clause. Provides examples and instructions for using clauses in constructing sentences.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Writing Concise Sentences
Why write five paragraphs when you can say what you want to say in two? Learn how to make the most of your words and sentences to get your point across without being too wordy.
Grammar Tips
Grammar Tips: Faulty Parallelism in Coordinate Elements: Short Version
This resource presents many examples of awkward and faulty parallelism which could be used for a class writing exercise, as well as for a guide to constructing correct sentences.
University of Texas at Austin
Tex's French Grammar: Irregular Subjunctive
This site from Tex's French Grammar provides a concise explanation of the subjunctive mood, listing some verbs that have irregular formations in the subjunctive. Brief explanation of when to use focuses primarily on "il faut que"...
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Avoid Unnecessary Construction and Prepositions
This page focuses on the need for clear and concise language when writing.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Abbreviations
A very competent look at how to use abbreviations in their proper context. This site also examines the proper use of abbreviations with titles, numbers and phrases.
Grammar Check
Grammar Check: The 10 Step Guide to Proofreading Essays Quickly (Infographic)
This infographic is provided to help students with proofreading essays. Students will learn common essay writing mistakes and how to fix them. Students will also find fast and easy essay writing tips. Students will learn how to quickly...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Item in a Series
This site is concerned with writing any kinds of items in a series. It verbally and graphically illustrates parallel structure, and shows how to punctuate a series.
University of Texas at Austin
Ut Austin: Introduction to French Negation
Basic introduction to the formation of the negative in French. The site has good examples of different constructions (ne pas, jamais, rien etc.)
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Sentence Elements: Noun Clauses
This section of an online grammar guide provides instructions and examples for using subordinate (dependent) clauses as nouns in constructing sentences.
Grammar Check
Grammar Check: 5 Bad Writing Habits You Can Break Today (Infographic)
This infographic includes a list of easy-to-fix writing habits. Methods for fixing these five writing habits are included.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Grammar Logs #311
This page, which seems to be connected to the online "Guide to Grammar and Writing," provides a log of questions to the author of the online "Guide." The fourth question explains and provides an example of how other parts of speech...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Revising Passive Constructions
Test your knowledge of active and passive voice by changing the passive voice sentences into active voice.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Parallel Structures Quiz
Capital Community College provides this 9 question quiz to test your knowledge of solid sentence writing. Each answer will be explained when you hit the "Submit application," button at the end of the quiz.
Other
Tutorial World: Basic Reading Worksheets for Grade 2
This site is a listing of a variety of worksheets for second-grade English students. Includes vocabulary, grammar, sentence construction, comprehension, and revision.